DISEASES OF DOGS : MADNESS. 371 



dogs, is to cut out the part bitten, if it can be 

 done ; if not, apply the actual cautery or lunar 

 caustic to it. It often occurs that the part or 

 parts which were bitten cannot be discovered : 

 in these instances we have recourse to Foxvkfs 

 Arsenical Solution. Ten to fourteen drops of 

 this solution must be given to a middling-sized 

 dog twice a day in milk, or in any thing the dog 

 eats, and should be continued for two or three 

 weeks, if the stomach can bear it. You should 

 commence with these drops after the operation of 

 the following ball. 



(RECIPE, No. 46.) 



Take — Turbith mineral, three grains ; 

 Barbadoes aloes, one drachm : 

 Make into a ball with syrup or conserve. 



When the symptoms of madness become ap- 

 parent, the most likely means of preventing a fatal 

 termination is repeated bleeding, and the arsenical 

 solution administered to the extent of forty drops 

 twice, or even three times a day ; but generally 

 the disease surmounts the power of all remedies 

 that have hitherto been tried. 



Worm under the Tongue, — Canine madness was 

 formerly attributed, as indeed it is now by some 

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